If there were nothing but thought in you. You wouldn't even know your thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he's dreaming. You would be as identified with thought as a dreamer is with every image in the dream.

Eckhart Tolle
About This Quote

In this quote, the author is explaining the difference between awareness and self-awareness. Awareness is when you have a sense of being in a specific time and space, whereas self-awareness is the awareness that you have a sense of being. In other words, how do you know that you are thinking? The author is saying that if there were no thought in you, you would not even realize that there was a thought going on inside your head. With this idea in mind, we can see that it is impossible for us to be aware of everything going on in our mind at any given moment.

Source: A New Earth: Awakening To Your Lifes Purpose

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